Tag: database
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How to Kickstart Your Data Science Career
This is a guest post from Michael Li of The Data Incubator. The The Data Incubator runs a free eight week data science fellowship to help transition their Fellows from Academia to Industry. This post runs through some of the toolsets you’ll need to know to kickstart your Data Science Career. If you’re an aspiring…
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The Beauty of Data Visualization – Ted Talk
In this 2010 Ted Talk, David McCandless provides a great example of transforming data into a story. Here are some of the data topics covered. Billion dollar-o-gram What is money spent on? Global media panic (SARS, Swine flu, asteroids, killer wasps, …), pay attention to the gap What country has the most soldiers (per population)?…
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Challenge To Future Developers: Start Storing More Data
Dear Future Developers Please store as much data as possible. Do not worry about the cost of the extra storage disks. The value in the data will far outweigh the cost of the hardware. Here are some examples of data that could be stored but is typically not. Start storing data about the order in…